OCTOBER NEWS AND UPDATES

Memorials and Honorariums

August 31 – September 21, 2025

In Memory of

Capital Improvement Fund:

Oscar Crede by Butch Gause

Linda and Billy Swittenberg by Richard Shuler

In Honor of

Pastor’s Discretionary Fund:

Sylvia Allison by Wesley Fellowship SS Class

James Ward by Wesley Fellowship SS Class

In Memory of

JOY Fund:

Oscar Crede by Louise Schultz

News and Upcoming Events

The Wednesday Night Suppers is at 5:30 pm in the FSH.  Bogart’s will provide the meals.  The cost is $8 for adults, $4.50 for children and $10 for salad w/chicken. Tea and Lemonade will be provided.  Please mark the attendance book on Sunday with the number of meals or call the office by noon on Monday.  

October 1st:  Pineapple terri chicken tenders, rice pilaf, green beans, and rolls

October 8th:  BBQ, baked beans, slaw and rolls

October 15th:  Hamburgers, French fries with all trimmings

October 22nd:  baked ziti, salad and garlic toast

October 29th:  hot dogs, slaw, hashbrown casserole, and trimmings

Salads will be offered again.  Please list whether you want fried or grilled chicken, along with your dressing.    

Yoga in the FSH at 6:30 pm on October 9, 16, 23 and 30.

"Second Sunday" services at 10:00 a.m.

Thank you to everyone for your support, and especially for your prayers, for our Second Sundays initiative. It has been delightful to welcome guests and to have our children participate in worship. Flo and Flora (and so many volunteers!) have each coordinated delicious refreshments as we fellowshipped with one another after the Aug and Sept services. We are thankful to God for His guidance as we continue to learn and grow.

There are a couple of changes with our Second Sunday Nursery volunteers listed below. Also new, during the Children's Church time, Janet Hopkins will be working with our children to prepare for our Nativity Sunday on Dec 21. Please continue to invite friends, neighbors, and acquaintances to join us!

October 12

Scout Appreciation Sunday

Nursery - Laura Hooper, Barbara Jordan

Refreshments - Debbie Summers and David Busby

November 9

Nursery - Susan Basnett, Brenda Gentzler

Children's Church - Janet Hopkins (Nativity service preparations)

Refreshments - Debbie Summers (coordinator)

"Trunk or Treat" Oct 26

The 2026 MOD (Missions, Outreach, and Discipleship) Committee is putting in some early work to hold PSUMC's Annual Trunk or Treat for the children!  You are welcome to decorate your trunk (non-scary) and go for the Best Decorations prize, however trunk decorating is not required if you wish to just come and pass out treats for the children! We hope to have enough cars available to invite the public. To participate, simply fill out the "Car Sign Up" form, return the slip to the Halloween basket in the Narthex by Oct 5, then follow the steps on the flyer. If we have enough participation to hold the event, we will seek volunteers to help with parking, candy donations, and other areas. Boo!

“Scout Appreciation Sunday” Oct 12, 10 a.m.

We have dozens of Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts who meet at Platt Springs on a regular basis. These leaders and children are working hard to prepare to lead our October Second Sunday service. What a wonderful opportunity to show our support and love on these families!! After the church service, the Summers and Busby’s are coordinating a fun, light meal with refreshments in the Fellowship Hall. Please plan to be here to give the scouts and families a warm PSUMC welcome!

Consecration Sunday is based on the biblical philosophy that the giver needs to give for his or her own spiritual development, rather than on the church’s need to receive.

EVERYONE is invited to celebrate together on Consecration Sunday!

Over the next month or so, take time to reflect on and assess your spiritual growth, choosing your direction while praying for your church. Please ponder: “What percentage of my    income is God calling me to give?” as you consider this unselfish act of discipleship

This year’s theme is "Fiesta, Fun, Faith & Fellowship!"

A fiesta is simply a festival or celebration, often featuring Latin or Mexican-inspired food and entertainment.

For the meal:

We’ll delight in a create-your-own carnitas bowl — a delicious dish with slow-cooked, tender shredded pork (carnitas) served over a base of rice or lettuce and topped with a variety of fresh and flavorful ingredients. It’s like a burrito — without the tortilla!

For the entertainment:

Enjoy the energetic and uplifting sounds of a mariachi band, while the young and young-at-heart try their hand at the limbo or bust open a piñata!

On Consecration Sunday, we invite you to prayerfully consider your voluntary financial commitment by completing an Estimate of Giving card. Your generosity supports the ongoing mission of Platt Springs United Methodist Church — to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world, both in our community and beyond.

Please plan to gather on Sunday, October 19, immediately following worship, for our very own Platt Springs UMC FIESTA!

Come support the choir and enjoy a spaghetti lunch with us.  We will be offering both eat in and take out options for you to choose from. Please see choir members to sign up. See the details below:

When: October 5, 2025

Where: Fellowship Hall after worship

Adults: $10.00

Kids: $5.00

3 and under eat free

** We also will have jars of homemade sauce for sale to enjoy as well**

The Blessing of the Animals on Saturday October 11th at 2:00 pm in the field. We will be accepting donations for a local animal shelter.

Time for a little Spring Cleaning…..

Gather your unwanted treasures and consider joining us for the Choir’s Fall Rummage Sale.  Reserve a table and show off your treasures.  All proceeds made from your table are yours to keep. Please see the choir member in the narthex after the service to reserve a table today.

Table cost are $30 for 8 ft. / $20 for round.

Set up date and time for the sale is October 31, 2025, from 9-11.  If you need an afternoon drop off time on the 31st  please contact Regina Lowell at 803-206-8199 and she will make arrangements to meet you.  

Rummage Sale Saturday, November 1, 2025, from 8-12 in the fellowship hall.

If you have items you wish to donate to the choir table, please drop them off in the choir room no later than Wednesday, October 29th.  

We will have coffee and doughnuts for purchase the morning of the sale.

*We are scheduling His House again to pick up any unwanted items after the sale. Unfortunately, they will not take car seats or high chairs.

Thanks for all your support to your music ministry

Trustee News for September 2025

A camera-based monitoring and recording security system covering all doors of the church and the parking lot is now operational.  This system can record and store approximately 3 weeks of detected activity and can be stored and recalled to be viewed at a later time.

A great big thank you to Mr. Harvey Reynolds for replacing several of the outside lights around the Sanctuary, the kitchen, Fellowship hall and church office and painting the light poles.

Thank you to Rex, our landscaping service, for coordinating the removal of the undergrowth from behind Auton Hall and making the entire arear around our church to look well-manicured.  

Stanick Roofing contractors completed the repairs to the Education Building roof and the Kitchen/Nursery area roof.  Hopefully no more leaks in our roofs!

Projects in the planning:  As we get closer to the end of the year, we will be scheduling a Friday/Saturday time to mop, strip and wax all the tile areas which includes all of the halls, bathrooms, and the Fellowship Hall.

Handbell Choir will be meeting directly after church in the handbell room every Sunday. All are welcome As we prepare for Christmas Eve.

On December 21, our children will be putting on a nativity scene during our church service. We will have several rehearsals beforehand, but we need all children interested to please contact Janet so we can do a headcount and start assigning parts. Thank you.

Charge Conference in FSH on Sunday, October 19 at 5:15 pm

Called Finance and Church Council Meeting on October 12 in the Sanctuary following the Worship Service.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

           Worship Service for October 5, 2025

Service of Worship

Platt Springs United Methodist Church

West Columbia, SC

October 5, 2025 – 11 A.M.

17th Sunday after Pentecost (World Communion)

Welcome and Announcements                               Marguerite Sterling    

October Birthdays                                                

*Please stand as the light of Christ is brought forward.                                        

*Choral Introit                “Grace Alone”                                      Choir

*Call to Worship                                                    Marguerite Sterling

L: Welcome to God’s house! We are delighted to have you here!

P: We hunger for God’s word of hope.

L: You have come to the right place. Here you will be fed on the life-giving love of God.

P: We thirst for God’s healing in our lives.

L: At the table of the Lord, you will be fed and your thirst quenched.

P: Thanks be to God who provides for our needs.

*Hymn                       “A Charge to Keep I Have”                 UMH #413  

Old Testament               Lamentations 1: 1-6                       Flora Jones                              

Pastoral Prayer                                                                 Pastor Debbie

Young Disciples                                                                 Pastor Debbie  

Worshipping God with Our Tithes & Offering.

Offertory            “Circle the Table”                                                Choir

*Doxology     “ Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”       # 95

*Gospel Reading              Luke 17: 5-10                         Pastor Debbie

Sermon                      “Is it Faith or Commitment?”         Pastor Debbie

Communion               “Each Day is a Gift”        Soloist, Sylvia Allison                        

Prayer after Communion                                        Pastor Debbie

At the communion table:

At your table, Giving God, we have been fed; our thirsty spirits have been quenched. We give you thanks for this taste of your kingdom meal when wolf and lamb will feed together and peace will reign on your holy mountain, in Jesus’ name. Amen.      

(Gluten free bread is available for Communion.)

(The Communion Rail offering goes to the Pastor’s Discretionary Fund.)

*Recessional           “God Will Take Care of You”               UMH  #130

*Benediction:  We are no longer islands unto ourselves. We are a worldwide community, living in the love and abundant mercy of God. Go in peace to serve God by serving others in need. AMEN

*Postlude

(* We invite you to stand and participate when able)

Prayer List October 5, 2025

  Surgeries/Hospital/Sick

Rick and Deree Stobaugh

David Brantley

JC Hyatt

Buck and Peggy Jones

James and Elaine Ward

Brenda Ettari

Nursing Homes/Assisted Living/ Hospice/Rehab

Paul Mullins, Debbie Summers's uncle

Jessie Sargent

Lucy Eden

Helen Tarbox

Coretta Safriet

Anne Piercy

Family/Friends/Community

Ashley Steele

Lauren Goodenough, friend of Laura Hooper

Vernon Cunningham, Sandy Cobia’s brother

Margie Horton, friend of Melody and Terry Clamp

Kay Pearson, friend of Jamie Guffey

Jake Williams, friend of Laura Hooper

Marsha Mathious, friend of Bernadette Weston

Addie Wilkerson-Pinner, friend of Laura Hooper

Bryce Schmoyer, friend of Vickie Hanks’

Raven Player, niece of Betty and Don Elliott

Tally Nesmith, friend of Betty Rogers

Trey Schmoyer, friend of Vickie Hanks

Audrey Barclay, Susan Basnett’s mother

Teresa Norris, friend of Butch Gause

Nancy Smith, friend of Marie Thompson

Corrie Wofford, C.J. Baker’s step daughter-in-law

Kathy Mott, Marie Thompson’s sister

Doyle McBride, friend of Laura Hooper

Heyward Ann Marchant, great niece of Laura Hooper

Military

Parker Albrecht, Navy

Zach Timmons, Marine Reserve

Donovan O’Dea, Army

Micah Floyd, Army

Spencer Miller, Air Force

Bailey Roberson, Army

Condolences

The family of Chris Boyer, Donna Boyer’s son and Dr. Linda Lake’s nephew

To keep in contact with everyone on our prayer list we're going to clean the names that have been here for several weeks. If your name, or a loved one's name, has been listed here for three weeks, make sure to give Melody at (803)794-3415 a call so we'll keep them listed.